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KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak today visited the construction site of the Tun Razak Exchange (TRX) Mass Rapid Transport (MRT) station to see for himself the progress on the most modern public transport hub in the country, which is scheduled for completion in July 2017.

Nation

KUALA LUMPUR: The next batch of Malaysian members of the International Monitoring Team will soon take up residence in Mindanao, but have been warned they may face the toughest test yet of any peacekeeping force in the southern Philippines.

NST Pictures

Armed Forces chief General Tan Sri Zulkifeli Mohd Zin (right) with some of the Malaysian members of the International Monitoring Team-Mindanao 10 (IMT-M10) at the sending-off ceremony in Wisma Transit. Bernama photo

Crash Of QZ8501

KUCHING: More than 200 people comprising the family members, relatives and friends of Sii Chung Huei, 56, the sole Malaysian passenger onboard the ill-fated Indonesia Air Asia flight QZ850, present at his funeral ceremony at Nirvana Memorial Park in Siniawan here.

World

LONDON: The London graduate believed to be Islamic State executioner “Jihadi John” once denounced the 9/11 attacks and the 2005 bombings in the British capital, according to an audio recording released today.

MH370 - Crash In Indian Ocean

KUALA LUMPUR: Two airplane catastrophes put Malaysia on the map in a bad way in 2014. But they didn’t hurt the country’s tourism, and the higher visibility may even have helped: visitor numbers had their strongest growth in years.

Sports

CANBERRA: Hashim Amla hit his highest one-day score with a majestic 159 and Faf du Plessis grabbed a century as South Africa set Ireland a monumental target of 412 for an unlikely World Cup victory at Manuka Oval today.